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Sherwood

Sherwood

BBC One 2022

Two murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history while threatening to inflame historic divisions sparked during the Miners' Strike three decades before.
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The Top 10 Actors and Characters of Sherwood (Ranked Cast in 2024)

Adam Hugill

#1 - Adam Hugill (Constable Carrot)

Adam Hugill is an actor, known for 1917 (2019), The Banishing (2020) and Pennyworth (2019).

Adam Hugill plays as Constable Carrot in Sherwood.
Adam Hugill is the top #1 member of the cast and appears in 8 episodes.

Chanel Cresswell

#2 - Chanel Cresswell (Jess Meredith)

Chanel Cresswell plays as Jess Meredith in Sherwood.
Chanel Cresswell is the top #2 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Stephen Tompkinson

#3 - Stephen Tompkinson (Stephen Marshbrook)

Stephen Phillip Tompkinson is an English actor, known for his television roles as Marcus in Chancer (1990), Damien Day in Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1998), Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel (1996–98), Trevor Purvis in Grafters (1998–1999), Danny Trevanion in Wild at Heart (2006–2013) and Alan Banks in DCI Banks (2010–2016). He won the 1994 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor. He also starred in the films Brassed Off (1996) and Hotel Splendide (2000).

Stephen Tompkinson plays as Stephen Marshbrook in Sherwood.
Stephen Tompkinson is the top #3 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Philip Jackson

#4 - Philip Jackson (Paul Smart)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Jackson (born 18 June 1948) is an English actor, known for his many television and film roles, most notably as Chief Inspector Japp in the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot and as Abbot Hugo, one of the recurring adversaries in the cult 1980s series Robin of Sherwood.

Philip Jackson plays as Paul Smart in Sherwood.
Philip Jackson is the top #4 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Lorraine Ashbourne

#5 - Lorraine Ashbourne (Daphne Sparrow)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lorraine Ashbourne (born 1961 in Manchester) is an English stage, film and television actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorraine Ashbourne, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Lorraine Ashbourne plays as Daphne Sparrow in Sherwood.
Lorraine Ashbourne is the top #5 member of the cast and appears in 4 episodes.

Kevin Doyle

#6 - Kevin Doyle (Fred Rowley)

Kevin Doyle plays as Fred Rowley in Sherwood.
Kevin Doyle is the top #6 member of the cast and appears in 4 episodes.

David Morrissey

#7 - David Morrissey (DCS Ian St Clair)

David Mark Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool. He learned to act at the Everyman Youth Theatre, alongside Ian Hart, Mark and Stephen McGann, and Cathy Tyson. At the age of 18, he and Hart were cast in the television series One Summer (1983), which won them recognition throughout the country. After making One Summer, Morrissey attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Throughout the 1990s, he often portrayed policemen and soldiers, though took other defining roles such as Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend (1998) and Christopher Finzi in Hilary and Jackie (1998). More film parts followed, including roles in Some Voices (2000) and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), before he played the critically acclaimed roles of Stephen Collins in State of Play (2003) and Gordon Brown in The Deal (2003). The former won him a nomination at the British Academy Television Awards and the latter a Best Actor award at the Royal Television Society Awards. His film roles have not always been acclaimed; his appearance as the male lead in Basic Instinct 2 (2006) was widely criticised, and The Reaping (2007) bombed at the box office. Since then, he has had leading roles in Sense and Sensibility (2008), Red Riding (2009) and Five Days (2010), acted in the films Nowhere Boy (2009) and Centurion (2010), and produced and starred in the crime drama Thorne (2010). He returned to the stage in 2008 for a run of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House and will take the title role in the Liverpool Everyman's production of Macbeth in 2011. As a director Morrissey has helmed short films, and the dramas Sweet Revenge (2001) and Passer By (2004) for the BBC. His feature debut, Don't Worry About Me, premiered at the 2009 London Film Festival and was broadcast on BBC television in March 2010. He is married to the novelist Esther Freud, has three children and is a patron of numerous charities. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Morrissey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

David Morrissey plays as DCS Ian St Clair in Sherwood.
David Morrissey is the top #7 member of the cast and appears in 4 episodes.

Sean Gilder

#8 - Sean Gilder (Dean Simmonds)

Sean Gilder plays as Dean Simmonds in Sherwood.
Sean Gilder is the top #8 member of the cast and appears in 4 episodes.

Andrea Lowe

#9 - Andrea Lowe (DI Taylor)

Andrea Lowe plays as DI Taylor in Sherwood.
Andrea Lowe is the top #9 member of the cast and appears in 4 episodes.

Adeel Akhtar

#10 - Adeel Akhtar (Andy Fisher)

Akhtar is known for the bumbling Muslim extremist Faisal in Chris Morris's film Four Lions.[3] Other comedic performances include Gupta in The Angelos Epithemiou Show,[4] Maroush in The Dictator[4] and Smee in Joe Wright and Pan.[5] Akhtar has also won acclaim for his dramatic performances: in 2015, he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his 2014 role as Wilson Wilson on Channel 4's Utopia.[6] He played shopkeeper Ahmed alongside Toby Jones in the BBC mini-series Capital,[7] and DS Ira King in the BBC's River.[8] Reviewing River in The Daily Telegraph, Michael Hogan wrote, "This series was beautifully written by Abi Morgan, stylishly directed, and most of all, superbly acted. The quieter, less showy supporting players also shone. Not just stalwarts [...] but fresher faces: Adeel Akhtar as River's endlessly patient sidekick and Georgina Rich as his psychiatrist".[9] In 2016 Akhtar appeared as Shahzad in the BBC one-off drama Murdered by My Father. He won the 2017 BAFTA award for Lead Actor for this role,[10] the first non-white actor to do so.[11] He also appeared as Rob Singhal in the acclaimed BBC miniseries based on John le Carré's The Night Manager.[12] His latest role is as Billy in the 2019 critically acclaimed series on BBC Three, Back to Life, written by Daisy Haggard and Laura Salon. Adeel became a patron of Half Moon Theatre in autumn 2016.

Adeel Akhtar plays as Andy Fisher in Sherwood.
Adeel Akhtar is the top #10 member of the cast and appears in 4 episodes.

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